With all the outcry going on due to the Charlotte City Council’s transgender bathroom ordinance, some related news has gotten lost in the shuffle.

At the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board’s February retreat, the idea of converting all of the school bathrooms to “Gender Neutral” was introduced. The district appears to wish to make all bathrooms available to students depending on what gender they “identify” with. View the Agenda here: 2016 Board Planning Retreat Agenda.

Arguably, such a venture would be costly and the budget presentation from the same retreat depicts the district already having a “budget shortfall” of $6.6 million. Given this retro-fitting would require the use of district funds, it would seem appropriate the board vote on it, yet no such vote nor public hearing seems to have been scheduled.

The article also cites Title IX, which is a federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. The U.S. Department of Education has been using Title IX as the legal basis to force school districts in various states to adopt similar transgender facilities policies.

As Civitas previously reported, Gov. Pat McCrory added North Carolina to an amicus brief last fall that takes direct aim at the U.S. Department of Education’s attempts to force such policies using Title IX when Attorney General Roy Cooper refused to do so.

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro equity director, Sheldon Lanier, has been cited by ECHO as sending a letter to school officials in the district on the topic. The text of the letter was obtained from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.

The letter restates the basic premise of the U.S. Department of Education’s lawsuits utilizing Title IX and goes a step further, stating that the bathroom conversions will happen in the coming month:

“In compliance with Title 9 legislation, a single stall bathroom will be converted to gender-neutral by the end of the month. It is a major policy change and will certainly seem unfamiliar to many of you.”

Accompanying the copy of the letter was a picture of the proposed new signage, which reads “All Gender Restroom.”

Three questions emerge from these developments: First, where parents and the public stand on the question of converting all middle and high school bathrooms to “All Gender” needs to be asked.

And third, are parents aware that the presentation Sheldon Lanier made at the board retreat is based on the highly controversial and radical Critical Race Theory (CRT)?

Critical Race Theory, in summary, looks at every aspect of life, from education to the judicial system, only from the perspective of race. Critical Race Theory’s base assumption is that everything is racist and the “system” is rigged to the advantage of “White Supremacy.”

One of the slides in the presentation was on “Cultural Barriers”: It highlighted the following:

Black cultural resistance and distrust towards social institutions such as schools.

Students will adopt behaviors opposite of what is deemed preferable of Whites to avoid being labeled as “acting White.”

CRT (conceptual framework) – race and racism intersect with other identity categories and experiences of subordination to create and maintain cultural and institutional systems of oppression.

Parents want students to use academic success as a means of social mobility.

CRT may sound familiar to those who read the coverage by Breitbart.com surrounding the radical Professor Derrick Bell, one of Critical Race Theory’s two main founders. The outlet wrote dozens of articles covering President Obama’s praise for Bell, and linked to video of Obama physically embracing him at a rally. Obama also used Bell’s work in the classes he taught at the University of Chicago.

Sheldon Lanier is infusing CRT, which is inextricably tied to Social Justice activism, into the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools. More and more academic subjects such as math, science and reading are put on the back burner in favor of Social Justice and policy guided by radical theories.

The parents are right here and happy to support our district. And no, the board does not intend to make ALL bathrooms available to students based on their gender identity, but rather to make some available to students who need them.
And please–if you’re going to write junk like this, do some actual work and talk to people, rather than relying on a high school newspaper–not that you identified it as such–a terrific student newspaper, but still, it’s a high school paper and you are an adult. Do the work and get actual facts.

AP DIllion appears to be intoxicated by the gender issues facing schools. Most parents realize the issue is not nearly as pressing as she makes it out to be, and they are not inclined to listen to her fear mongering.

It is very hard to believe anybody that’s not a pervert would think it’s a good idea for men to share a bathroom with 10 year old girls.No surprise with Lonnie though,anything that has been thought of as normal,he is against it.Thank God he is a minority within a minority.

Lonnie, you have had a stroke.How do you know what parts this person has?You will take anything these queer sites tell you as truth.How many jobs will be chased out of N.C.?I would say zero unless it’s your little hobby business.Certainly not as many as we have lost under our Communist,Muslim President.Just like you freaks to let child molesters in the bathrooms with children to accommodate a handful of transgender.

Pretty funny ad.Bet we get more families to come here now.I hope the queers keep running the ad. Asheville has enough freaks to last a hundred years.When your Muslim buddies take over they will be throwing them off of buildings.Thats how tolerant they are.

There are few families, Democrat or Republican who don’t have a member that’s part of the LBGT community. Hate and bigotry are not positive family values. Young people today don’t make a big deal out of this. How are you harmed by the personal freedom and liberty of a Gay or transgender person?

Why do keep up with this hate and fear?I don’t hate or fear these people.If one of them harmed one of my 10 grand children,they would be the one that had some fear.Don’t call them gay.That word meant happy until a queer guy started calling himself gay.Do you really want some guy that thinks he is a woman to be in a restroom with one of my granddaughters with his pecker,as you call it out in plain sight.You are one sick puppy.

I’m trying not to make this a personal attack against you personally. You are so wrong headed and misinformed. How would you granddaughter see into the next stall or know the person there was not a woman, however now if the transgender, masculine, bearded female at birth, person walk into the public restroom you granddaughter maybe more than a little shocked. You have it backwards.

Here’s an image of what the Conservatives in the NCGA just did. Tell me you think this is going to be popular if this person walks into the lady’s restroom. I think this is going to backfire big time on the conservative authoritarians brown shirts.

I am going to take a page out of you freaks playbook.All the companies that came out against the Govenor’s decision are going to get the signs,the petitions,and all the pressure we can put on these companies.I am starting with Lowe’s since I have purchased many thousands from those people.Home Depot will be getting all my business from now on.

Why is important to you to have men in woman’s bathrooms?That is about the most sick thing I have ever heard of.Its about time the decent people in this country turn this country around.We are going to do just that in November.

Larry
Who ever is in either the men’s or women’s restroom needs to be respectful of the privacy of anyone else there. Gender inspection doesn’t sound like being respectful of privacy. Transgender citizens are real and a high risk group for being assaulted, bullying and taking their own life because of rejection by family, church and ignorance.

I am sure a child molester would be respectful of who is in the next booth.Are you a pervert or do you just feel the need to take up for perverts?It seems like any kind of freak or criminal you are there for them.You are one to talk about ignorance.

It seems odd to me that you would be so concerned about a pervert taking their own life,while you are all for millions of unborn being killed for their body parts.To Democrats,the unborn have no civil rights.The only people that should have civil rights are minorities,perverts,and criminals.White people,the unborn,the police,and the military should have no rights.

That you don’t have common sense is as factual as it gets.Anybody that thinks grown men that don’t know what sex they are, in a bathroom with kids has no common sense.I think the answer is to have all queers and freaks live in one part of the country and normal people live in another part.Otherwise,I the normal people will wake up one day and say we have had all the Political Correctness with can put up with.Put all the Socialists ,queers,in one part,probably the west since most of them are already there.Otherwise,we are heading for a civil war.Normal people have had a gut full of people like you and sooner or later enough will be enough.I guess the next protected class will be people that want to have sex with animals.I bet old Lonnie will be marching for that.

I see you have nothing to support your bigotry and desire for repressive discrimination. You do understand gayness is not contagious, neither is transgender. How does the “Goldern Rule” fit your moral compass decision making? Have you always been a lazy thinker?

I don’t have empathy for child molesters.Seems like you don’t have a problem with child molesters.What a shame for all the kids that will be harmed by these freaks.I don’t know why we are discussing this,the Legislature and the Govenor have reversed what the Charlotte city council did.What a shame for you.

How did you get to child molester in this discussion??? How do you associate LBGT or Transgender with child molester?
Do you realize most child molester are going to hide within conservative “family values” fundamentalist churches, political groups and the Catholic church or at least that’s been their history.
“In fact, there are studies that demonstrate that the faith community is even more vulnerable to abuse than secular environments. The Abel and Harlow study revealed that 93% of sex offenders describe themselves as “religious” and that this category of offender may be the most dangerous. Other studies have found that sexual abusers within faith communities have more victims and younger victims. This disturbing truth is perhaps best illustrated by the words of a convicted child molester who told Dr. Salter,

Let us see if I can see if I can explain to someone who is without a doubt retarded.If you open all women’s bathrooms to anybody don’t you have sense enough to know some of them will be child molesters.I guess I’am retarded also to think this could be explained to you.

You do know North Carolina would not be the first place to have common sense, non discrimitory public restrooms. Europe, Califorinia and Kroger Stores understand your fears are the product of extreme right wing stradigist looking for a wedge issue and theocrats like Franklin Graham looking for revenue. This will be overturned at much expense to taxpayers and after the 2016 election.

What about the child molester that started this?You have a habit of ignoring the facts.Don’t be so lazy.The article is in the Charlotte Observer,hardly a conservative newspaper.It’s in the public record.Was he one of your sign carrying idiots?For once in your life,own up to something.You know he is a child molester,so,just admit it.Like I said the Governor killed this mess anyway.

How’s this Lonnie,I think you know exactly who I was talking about.
The former president of Charlotte’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce has resigned after he came under fire from a conservative group, which noted that he is on a sex offender list and questioned his role in supporting the city’s expanded nondiscrimination ordinance.

Chad Sevearance-Turner had been the president of the chamber, which supported the newly expanded ordinance that gives legal protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.

At a City Council meeting Feb. 8, Mayor Jennifer Roberts cited a survey that showed discrimination was a real problem for the LGBT community. During the meeting, she said the survey was conducted by the LGBT Chamber.

That prompted questions from the N.C. Values Coalition, which opposes the new LGBT protections in the ordinance.

Tami Fitzgerald, who leads the Raleigh-based coalition, first mentioned Sevearance-Turner’s record at a Feb. 8 news conference outside the Government Center, which Sevearance-Turner attended. On Feb. 18, the coalition issued a news release further questioning the chamber’s role in the survey.

Because of his record, “any supposed evidence provided by the group is discredited,” she wrote.

Scott Bishop, the head of MeckPAC, a lobbying group for the LGBT community, said last month the chamber wasn’t involved in the survey. He said a social worker distributed the surveys, which were then forwarded to MeckPAC.

In an interview with the Observer, Sevearance-Turner said his group didn’t conduct the survey.

Sevearance-Turner was arrested in 1998, when he was 20, and charged in Cherokee County, S.C., with a “lewd act, committing or attempting a lewd act upon a child under 16.”

A 2000 story in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal said Sevearance-Turner had been a youth minister at a church in Gaffney. A jury there found him guilty of fondling a 15-year-old teenage church member while the boy slept.

Before he stepped down as chamber president, Sevearance-Turner said the N.C. Values Coalition’s criticism “did not surprise him.”

He said his conviction had not stopped him from achieving success, such as being chamber president.

He couldn’t be reached for comment Wednesday. Q Notes, a publication that covers Charlotte’s LGBT community, reported Thursday that he had resigned.

Fitzgerald said Thursday that Sevearance-Turner’s role in supporting the ordinance is troubling.

“No one who is a convicted sex offender should be leading a campaign to allow men to be in women’s bathrooms and showers,” she said. “It’s just common sense.”

The most controversial part of Charlotte’s expanded nondiscrimination ordinance would allow transgender individuals to use either a men’s or women’s restroom. If the person identifies as female, they would be allowed to use a women’s restroom in places of public accommodation.

Opponents have said that would make it easier for men to prey on women and girls inside women’s bathrooms. Supporters said there are already laws against that, and that transgender people are the ones who face danger in bathrooms.

The N.C. General Assembly is considering a special session to overturn part of the ordinance

You made my point.Sickos like to go where there are kids to prey upon.Like Boy Scout leaders,Sunday school teachers,and school teachers.They like places they can act like they are there to help the kids when just the opposite is true.Your zeal at arguing so much on this subject makes me wonder if you aren’t a little light in the loafers.

Larry
Do you know if your last comment ( “Sickos like to go where there are kids to prey upon.Like Boy Scout leaders,Sunday school teachers,and school teachers. They like places they can act like they are there to help the kids when just the opposite is true.”) is that the official position of all conservatives, Civitas Institute or just your opinion?
Were you advocating banning Sunday School, Boy Scouts, and public schools because children are at greater risk, there than in pubic restrooms that serve all citizens including the LBGT?
You never told us how the NCGA plans to enforce this new law? How will you or they know for sure the person in the next stall has the wrong plumbing for that restroom? How will you know you just shared a public restroom with a transgender person?

Propagandist pick a group with limited or no political power, one or two individuals from that group are accused of criminal activity and the propagandist use such an event to demonize, dehumanize and strip millions of fellow human being of full citizenship rights.
Today in NC it’s the LBGT citizens, with HB 2.
Legislation. Civitas Institute, ALEC and their billionaire financers have a long list of fellow citizens to dehumanize and marginalize, union workers, public school teachers, liberals, undocumented workers, students, Muslims, People of color, the poor and journalist.
Do you really believe Art Pope represent has your family’s best interest in mind while funding this false narrative?

Lonnie,
That freak in Toronto and many others like him need to be dehumanized because people like him are not human.Your lovely Muslims would be throwing this POS off a building after they chopped his head off.How many transgender bathrooms do you think are in Muslim countries?With Sharia law they would take your head off in two seconds for all your talk in favor of queers.What’s left of your brain after that stroke is stuck on false narrative.

Larry
Quit being so damn lazy when it comes the critical thinking. Bigots tend to be not that bright. You cite one case in Toronto against a criminal transgender attacker but church insurers have to pay out for an average of 280 settlements from sexual assaults on children by clergy and church volunteers each year in the United States. Where Civitas and GOP action there?
Larry, you’re the target GOP base ALEC thinks will be motivated by this false narrative because your too lazy to find the truth.

Glad you got false narrative in there,Lonnie.I thought you might get through a rant without it,but no.If bigots aren’t too bright then you must be one,because you are about as bright as a burned out light bulb.

Civitas encourages you to leave your comments and feedback related to the articles posted here. Civitas reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to remove any comments, including but not limited to comments that include abusive, vulgar, threatening or harassing language, or personal attacks of any kind. Off-topic comments or gratuitous links that could be viewed as spam are also subject to removal at our sole discretion. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Comment

Name *

Email *

Website

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.